Phil Balagtas

Broschiertes Buch

Making Futures Work

How to Integrate Futures Thinking into your Design Practice

Beschreibung

"Learn how to get started with Futures Thinking. With this practical guide, Phil Balagtas, founder of the Design Futures Initiative and the global Speculative Futures network, shows you how designers and futurists have made futures work at companies such as Intel, IBM, Apple, Disney, Autodesk, the United Nations, and Lufthansa. This book demystifies the process of Futures Thinking into a language that's practical and useful for both designers and strategists. You'll learn about Strategic Foresight for understanding patterns in our world today to anticipate and prepare for the future; Speculative Design to communicate the relationship between science, technology, and humans; and Design Fiction to explore and critique possible futures"--Back cover.

Autor

Phil Balagtas is a design leader with over 2 decades of experience creating innovative digital products and services. Working for companies such as General Electric and McKinsey & Company, he has served a variety of sectors such as aviation, healthcare, utilities, consumer electronics, and retail to name a few. As a consultant he has helped transform businesses through cultural and digital transformations, trained teams on Design Thinking and designed and shipped digital products for B2B and B2C organizations. He is also the founder of the Design Futures Initiative, a nonprofit based in San Francisco focused on the advancement of Futures Thinkingâ principles and methodologies for assessing the threats and opportunities of the future. Through this initiative he has worked with the United Nations, Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco and also founded a global network of Futures Thinking chapters called Speculative Futures. Working as both a Futures expert, evangelist and consultant, he has been studying and applying Futures to a variety of business and organizational contexts in an attempt to integrate it into the design practice and make the approach more practical, accessible and viable for business and product strategy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 150mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 802g
• ISBN-13: 9781098148904
• ISBN-10: 1098148908
• Artikelnr.: 70056497